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Asus S6
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Asus S6Processor: Intel Core Duo L2300
Graphics Adapter: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 128 MB
Display: 11.1 inch, 16:10, 1366x768 pixels
Weight: 1.4kg
Links: Asus homepage Asus notebook section
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Reviews for the Asus S6
Review Asus S6
Source: T Break 
We conducted some tests on the S6 to see the performance levels. Usually, you dont expect an ultra-portable such as the S6 to perform extremely well in benchmarks but were pleasently surprised by its performance. The following table compares the S6 to the ASUS Lamborghini with the Intel 2.16GHz Core Duo CPU and the Toshiba Q20 with the Pentium 2.13GHz Single Core CPU.
ausführlicher Test mit Geräteaufbau und Testwerten und Bildern; online abrufbar
Preis/Leistung zufriedenstellend, Leistung gut, Akkulaufzeit sehr gut
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 12/19/2006
Rating: price: 70% performance: 80%
Comment
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 is an integrated (onboard) graphic chip on Mobile Intel 945GM chipset. It is a faster clocked version of the GMA 900 and supports no hardware T&L (Transform & Lightning) accelleration (which is required for some games).
Only older games can be played fluently with these graphics chips (if they were not too demanding). Shared memory graphic cores in this category got the advantage of less heat production and longer battery runtimes. For office, internet, image processing, and video editing tasks these graphics chips are still useable without any restrictions.
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Core Duo: Double Core processor with a very good relation of performance to current consumption. The 2 MB L2 Cache are used together by the double. The maximum capacity of 31 watts is only 4 watts more than with the Pentium M (predecessor). Both cores are lowered automatically and independently of each other by speed steps down to 1 GHz. In addition it now supports also SSE3 instructions. At least it is just as fast as a equivalent Pentium M. With applications, which were designed for multi-processors, the performance can be nearly twice as fast as with the Pentium M (e.g. CineBench around 86% fast)
L2300:
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
11.1": This is a quite small display format for subnotebooks, which is not very common.
The advantage is, that the subnotebook can be small dimensioned and can be carried easily. Further the tiny display has the advantage, that it needs few current, which improves the battery runtime and in consequence the mobility. The disadvantage is that the reading of texts is very exhausting vor the eyes. High resolutions can hardly be used.
>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
1.4 kg: This subnotebook is one of the most lightweight of all notebooks and can be carried very easily. There exist only few sub-notebooks, which weight less. 10 inch displays are normal for this class of weight.
Asus: Asus is an international manufacturer of medium size. In German and English speaking countries nowadays many notebooks of Asustec are reviewed. Nevertheless rather few laptop models achieve top-positions according total ranking and prize/value-rating.
>> Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
